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  1. Writing on Complex Surfaces

    Writing in programmable media is theorized in relation to the surface of writing.[1] Within the framework of currently dominant cultural and technological formations, the surface of writing is conceptually simple, and this overdetermines practices of writing. As it is typically conceived, the surface of writing is a flatland plane, a 3rd-dimensionless scroll (however segmented or, indeed, fragmented) on which linguistic symbols, similarly dimensionless, are arrayed. Once language has come to rest on this simple surface, any qualities it may possess of temporality or material depth are bracketed. Programmable media problematize this dominant but simple model, and yet, arguably, its depthless, timeless surface misdirects the composition and publication of writing, even writing that is instantiated in programmable media. In the field of poetics, there are traditions for which the surface of writing is complex. Although rarely made explicit, such approaches to the writing surface have enriched the practices of important writers, particularly poetic writers.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 17:21

  2. Rev. of Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres

    Rev. of Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 04.02.2011 - 12:43

  3. Cybertekst: Metodologia i interpretacja

    Fragments from a dissertation written under the guidance of of prof. P M. Markowski and defended at the Jagiellonian University 17 March 2010. Section "Cybertekst, ie, the text-machine."

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.02.2011 - 12:28

  4. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

    A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

  5. The Body in Electronic Literature

    A brief discussion of the body and embodiment in work by Shelley Jackson and Stuart Moulthop.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 22.05.2011 - 13:58

  6. Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

    Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

    Scott Rettberg - 17.06.2011 - 12:09

  7. "I Am a Double Agent": Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Persistence of Print in the Age of Hypertext

    "I Am a Double Agent": Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Persistence of Print in the Age of Hypertext

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.06.2011 - 16:17

  8. Playable Media and Textual Instruments

    The statement that "this is not a game" has been employed in many ways — for example, to distinguish between high and low culture electronic texts, to market an immersive game meant to break the "magic circle" that separates games from the rest of life, to demarcate play experiences (digital or otherwise) that fall outside formal game definitions, and to distinguish between computer games and other forms of digital entertainment. This essay does not seek to praise some uses of this maneuver and condemn others. Rather, it simply points out that we are attempting to discuss a number of things that we play (and create for play) but that are arguably not games. Calling our experiences "interactive" would perhaps be accurate, but overly broad. An alternative — "playable" — is proposed, considered less as a category than as a quality that manifests in different ways. "Playable media" may be an appropriate way to discuss both games and the "not games" mentioned earlier.

    Jörgen Schäfer - 05.07.2011 - 13:35

  9. Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

    Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37

  10. Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental

    Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Post-humanist Critiques of the Instrumental

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.07.2011 - 10:53

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